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Constructing Arctic security: an inter-disciplinary approach to understanding security in the Barents region

Kamrul Hossain, Gerald Zojer, Wilfrid Greaves, J. Miguel Roncero, Michael Sheehan

Polar Record, Volume: 53, Issue: 01, Pages: 52 - 66

Swansea University Author: Michael Sheehan

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DOI (Published version): 10.1017/S0032247416000693

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Although traditionally Security Studies focused on military threats to states' survival, however, since the end of the Cold War the concept of security has widened and individuals and communities have gradually become viewed as appropriate referent objects of security. In the Arctic region, the...

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Published in: Polar Record
ISSN: 0032-2474 1475-3057
Published: 2017
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa32503
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Abstract: Although traditionally Security Studies focused on military threats to states' survival, however, since the end of the Cold War the concept of security has widened and individuals and communities have gradually become viewed as appropriate referent objects of security. In the Arctic region, the human population are exposed to multiple non-traditional and non-military threats resulting from environmental, economic, and societal changes, which can be understood as threats to human security. In this article, we argue that a comprehensive approach to human security overlaps with the concept of societal security, and must therefore consider threats to collective identity and the essential conditions necessary for the maintenance and preservation of a distinct society. We use the human security framework as an analytical tool to study the specific challenges that threaten the Arctic population, and in turn the well-being of Arctic societies. The article demonstrates that using the concept of human security can promote societal security in the context of the Arctic.
Item Description: An open access version of this paper is available at the University of Lapland repository: https://lacris.ulapland.fi/en/publications/constructing-arctic-security(25d0241a-58f2-480c-a267-5a2dfa4dc8da).html
Keywords: Arctic, Barents, Security.
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Issue: 01
Start Page: 52
End Page: 66

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